Doing business is simple, right?
Just increase credits (productivity, revenue) and reduce debits (expenses, downtime). This simple truth governs much of what shapes today’s information technology environments.
The pursuit of better business is behind a handful of IT initiatives:
- Increase worker productivity. Climbing productivity trend lines invariably result from better use of tools, and no tool has been as powerful as computing. As an IT manager, your job is to make your colleagues more productive.
- Control expenses. It’s hard to find an IT manager whose boss hasn’t asked for limits on expenditures. Even when the enterprise is growing and dependence on technology is rising, your job is to do it for less.
- Keep good IT personnel. IT managers, this one is for you. There’s a Morale Tax to overtaxed workers. You don’t want good people to leave, so you guard against burnout and provide opportunities to utilize their skills.
These trends are driving wider adoption of HCI, or hyper-converged infrastructures. And some impressive metrics have arisen to explain why.
HCI bundles compute, storage and networking functions in a single software solution or appliance. HCI offers the agility and ease of cloud computing at about a quarter of the cost.
More and more organizations are asking about HCI as a way to meet their business challenges. Rolta AdvizeX has over 40 years of experience putting innovative solutions to work for organizations. We understand the complexities associated with making IT a strategic center point. We also know analytics tell an important story.
Enter Dell EMC.
With decades of IT experience, you can be sure that Rolta AdvizeX knows which technology manufacturers are focused on creating innovative solutions that work. Our partnership with Dell EMC goes back to nearly the beginning. Over the years, we have built a robust, teamwork-centered strategy.
In a recent report, Dell EMC commissioned IDC to investigate the business value of hyper-converged systems.
IDC talked to companies in a range of sizes and industries to determine how hyper-converged infrastructure initiatives helped them meet desired business outcomes. Here are just a few of IDC’s findings:
- Business productivity benefits. Revenue and employee productivity gains have been worth an average of $77,342 per 100 users per year, or $1.12 million annually per organization.
- IT staff productivity benefits. Users valued easier deployment, maintenance, and support of Dell EMC HCI solutions at an average of $34,571 per 100 users per year, or $501,600 annually per organization.
- Risk mitigation — user productivity benefits. Dell EMC HCI customers cite fewer outages and faster issue resolution as being worth $31,068 per 100 users per year, or an average of $450,800 per year.
- IT infrastructure cost reductions. Dell EMC HCI solutions are saving an average of $7,795 per 100 users per year, which comes to $113,100 annually per organization.
- Total average value: $150,775 per 100 users per year!
If you can measure it, you can manage it. If those five metrics don’t surprise you, how about this bottom line? IDC found hyper-convergence was bringing cloud-like benefits such as scalability to enterprises’ data centers, but at about 22 percent of the cost!
The metrics above are just a portion of what IDC discovered. For more measurements of HCI in action, see the infographic, “The Business Case for HCI.” It summarizes key points from the IDC white paper. ▪